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Originally Posted by New Era
Oh, and that would be on city owned land, in a deal made with the Stampede board in a land swap. Hard to believe the Flames would walk away from such an amazing deal for them?
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You make it seem like the swap applies to the Flames.
The Flames don't own any land. They don't own the land the Saddledome is on, they don't own the land CalgaryNEXT was proposed to be on, they don't own it anywhere.
The land swap is between the City and the Stampede, so the City can let the arena be built on it. CalgaryNEXT was predicated on the city owning the facility because it would also be on city land. If the team wants to buy the land on the arena site they want, then they would have more say on where it gets built.